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com·press

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m-pres; n. kom-pres] Pronunciation Key

–verb (used with object)

1.	to press together; force into less space.

2.	to cause to become a solid mass: to compress cotton into bales.

3.	to condense, shorten, or abbreviate: The book was compressed by 50 pages.

–noun

4.	Medicine/Medical. a soft, cloth pad held in place by a bandage and used to provide pressure or to supply moisture, cold, heat, or medication.

5.	an apparatus for compressing cotton bales.

6.	a warehouse for storing cotton bales before shipment.

[Origin: 1350–1400; (v.) ME (< MF compresser) < LL compressāre, freq. of L comprimere to squeeze together (see com-, press¹); (n.) < MF compresse, n. deriv. of the v.

]

—Related forms

com·press·i·ble, adjective

com·press·i·bly, adverb

com·press·ing·ly, adverb

—Synonyms 1. condense, squeeze, constrict. See contract.

—Antonyms 1. expand, spread.

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com·press Audio Help (kəm-prěs') Pronunciation Key
tr.v. com·pressed, com·press·ing, com·press·es

To press together: compressed her lips.
To make more compact by or as if by pressing.
Computer Science To transform (data) to minimize the space required for storage or transmission: compressed the file so that it could be downloaded efficiently.

n. (kŏm'prěs')

Medicine A soft pad of gauze or other material applied with pressure to a part of the body to control hemorrhage or to supply heat, cold, moisture, or medication to alleviate pain or reduce infection.
A machine for compressing material.

[Middle English compressen, from Old French compresser, from Late Latin compressāre, frequentative of Latin comprimere : com-, com- + premere, to press; see per-⁴ in Indo-European roots.]

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Online Etymology Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This
compress

c.1380, "to press (something) together," from O.Fr. compresser, from L. compressare "to press together," frequentative of comprimere "to squeeze," from com- "together" + premere "to press" (see press (v.1)). The noun, in the surgical sense, is from 1599.

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compress
noun
1.	a cloth pad or dressing (with or without medication) applied firmly to some part of the body (to relieve discomfort or reduce fever)
verb
1.	make more compact by or as if by pressing; "compress the data" [ant: decompress]
2.	squeeze or press together; "she compressed her lips"; "the spasm contracted the muscle"

Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary (Beta Version) - Cite This Source - Share This
compress [kəmˈpres] verb

to press together; to force into a narrower space
Example: All his belongings were compressed into a very small suitcase.

Arabic:	يَضْغَط، يُرَكّز
Chinese (Simplified):	压缩
Chinese (Traditional):	壓縮
Czech:	stěsnat
Danish:	komprimere; sammenpresse
Dutch:	samenpersen
Estonian:	kokku suruma
Finnish:	pusertaa, tiivistää
French:	comprimer
German:	zusammenpressen
Greek:	συμπιέζω
Hungarian:	összeprésel
Icelandic:	þrÿsta, *þjappa saman
Indonesian:	memadatkan
Italian:	comprimere

Japanese:	圧縮する
Korean:	압축하다
Latvian:	saspiest; sablīvēt
Lithuanian:	suspausti
Norwegian:	presse sammen, komprimere
Polish:	ściskać
Portuguese (Brazil):	comprimir
Portuguese (Portugal):	comprimir
Romanian:	a înghesui
Russian:	сжимать
Slovak:	stlačiť
Slovenian:	stisniti, stlačiti
Spanish:	comprimir
Swedish:	pressa ihop, komprimera
Turkish:	sıkıştırmak

See also: compressed air

American Heritage Stedman's Medical Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This

com·press (kmprs)
n.

A soft pad of gauze or other material applied with pressure to a part of the body to control hemorrhage or to supply heat, cold, moisture, or medication to alleviate pain or reduce infection.

v. com·pressed, com·press·ing, com·press·es (k

m-pr

)

To press or squeeze together.

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Merriam-Webster's Medical Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This

Main Entry: ²com·press
Pronunciation: 'käm-"pres
Function: noun
1 : a covering consisting usually of a folded cloth that is applied and held firmly by the aid of a bandage over a wound dressing to prevent oozing
2 : a folded wet or dry cloth applied firmly to a part (as to allay inflammation)

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Main Entry: ¹com·press
Pronunciation: k&m-'pres
Function: transitive verb
1 : to press or squeeze together <a ligament in the wrist was compressing a nerve>
2 : to reduce in size or volume as if by squeezing <compress air>

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compress
1. To feed data through any compression algorithm.
2. The Unix program "compress", now largely supplanted by gzip.
Unix compress was written in C by Joseph M. Orost, James A. Woods et al., and was widely circulated via Usenet. It uses the Lempel-Ziv Welch algorithm and normally produces files with the suffix ".Z".
Compress uses variable length codes. Initially, nine-bit codes are output until they are all used. When this occurs, ten-bit codes are used and so on, until an implementation-dependent maximum is reached.
After every 10 kilobytes of input the compression ratio is checked. If it is decreasing then the entire string table is discarded and information is collected from scratch.

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compress

[Unix] vt. When used without a qualifier, generally refers to crunching of a file using a particular C implementation of compression by Joseph M. Orost et al. and widely circulated via Usenet; use of crunch itself in this sense is rare among Unix hackers. Specifically, compress is built around the Lempel-Ziv-Welch algorithm as described in "A Technique for High Performance Data Compression", Terry A. Welch, "IEEE Computer", vol. 17, no. 6 (June 1984), pp. 8-19.

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Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This

Compress

Com*press"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Compressed; p. pr & vb. n. Compressing.] [L. compressus, p. p. of comprimere to compress: com- + premere to press. See Press.]

1. To press or squeeze together; to force into a narrower compass; to reduce the volume of by pressure; to compact; to condense; as, to compress air or water.

Events of centuries . . . compressed within the compass of a single life. --D. Webster.

The same strength of expression, though more compressed, runs through his historical harangues. --Melmoth.

2. To embrace sexually. [Obs.] --Pope.

Syn: To crowd; squeeze; condense; reduce; abridge.

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This

Compress

Com"press\, n. [F. compresse.] (Surg.) A folded piece of cloth, pledget of lint, etc., used to cover the dressing of wounds, and so placed as, by the aid of a bandage, to make due pressure on any part.

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